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package org.teiid.core.types;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.io.Writer;

import javax.xml.transform.TransformerException;

/**
 * This an interface defined to convert the various kinds of the XML sources
 * defined into a character stream.
 */
public abstract class XMLTranslator {

    public abstract void translate(Writer writer) throws TransformerException, IOException;

    public String getString() throws IOException, TransformerException {
        StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
        this.translate(writer);
        return writer.toString();
    }

}
